In the Book of Genesis, God makes it very clear that man was created special on the sixth day of the Creation Week. Rejecting the Genesis account of history, evolutionists must search desperately to find an alternative explanantion for man’s origin. Discoveries, such as the recent “micro-primate” fossil fragment, demonstrate the great lengths to which evolutionists will go to connect humans and animals.
(AgapePress) – City officials and some residents of Hastings, Nebraska, are concerned that a monument featuring the Ten Commandments at a city cemetery could be the target of the American Civil Liberties Union.
(AgapePress) – In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prayer over public address systems at high school football games is illegal. As the football season opened across the country last weekend, many stadiums were the site of citizen- and student-led prayers. More prayers are expected at high school football games this weekend, continuing a campaign that pro-family groups hope will catch on across the nation.
(AgapePress) – The Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders is into its second day in New York. The more than 1,000 participants say their goal is to come up with ways of ending armed conflict, poverty, and harm to nature.
The most recent Mideast peace accord that was agreed upon in Egypt by Palestinians and Jews appears to offer little hope for a lasting peace. Violence continues in Israel as Muslim leaders incite their followers to hate and commit acts of violence against Christians and Jews.
WINSTON-SALEM, NC (AgapePress) – David Ring mounted the stage slowly with a noticeable limp, paused at the podium, and looked out on the crowd of over 600. In painful moves and halting speech, he paced the stage and told the listeners at Friedburg Moravian Church to get off the sidelines and get involved in their local church.
LOS ANGELES (Compass) — If a recent poll of Americans is any indication, the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP) has been effective in raising awareness of Christian persecution. But motivating people to help the persecuted church may prove much more difficult.
ASHEVILLE, NC (AgapePress) – Reynolds High School, scene of last week’s “We Still Pray” rally, might soon be seeing another religious gathering on its grounds. This time, a regional pagan group is asking to use the facilities.
AgapePress) – In 1969, Arlo Guthrie stood before thousands of hippies attending the famed Woodstock music festival to proudly announce that, due to them, the highways had been closed. The counter culture had arrived.
AgapePress) – In 1969, Arlo Guthrie stood before thousands of hippies attending the famed Woodstock music festival to proudly announce that, due to them, the highways had been closed. The counter culture had arrived.
(AgapePress) – Some pastors within the United Methodist Church are paying a big price for opposing same-sex unions and other liberal church policies.
SAN JOSE, CA (August 18, 2000) — Faith Shaw was born in Rwanda, a country that between 1959-64 saw more than 500,000 people killed and a similar number or more fled the country. She was horrified when in April of 1994, a further 800,000 were killed and 1,000,000 fled to the neighboring countries.
(AgapePress) – The United Nations Millennium Summit is set to get under way in a few weeks. Many Christians regard the agenda as an organizational meeting for a one-world government. The UN calls it the largest single gathering of heads of state ever held in the world.
WHITTIER, CA (August 8, 2000) — Lt. Col. George Russell Barber, the last living chaplain who was at the Omaha Beach, Normandy, landing on D-Day, says that “war is hell”, but that doesn’t stop him from proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ that points people towards heaven.
LAGOS, Nigeria, 5 August 2000 (Newsroom) — A Christian initiative aimed at rehabilitating individuals and churches traumatized during sectarian riots in Kaduna earlier this year was launched in Lagos by a Pentecostal assembly, the Living Waters Unlimited Church.
(AgapePress) – Most pro-life advocates agree that human life begins at the moment of conception. However, there are pro-abortion forces who would deny a child’s right to life even after birth. An important new pro-life bill–the Born Alive Infants Protection Act–would establish a federal law recognizing that an infant is legally alive once he or she is completely outside the mother’s womb.
31 July 2000 (Newsroom) — Christians in Indonesia’s Maluku islands say their community remains under threat of extermination by thousands of trained Jihad troops that have entered the region since May.
(AgapePress) – Three conservative bishops in the Episcopal Church have been given an ultimatum. They have been ordered to start ordaining women into the priesthood or face disciplinary action.
(AgapePress) – Colorado Congressman Bob Schaffer has been leading the charge in Congress to defend the right of government agencies to post our national motto. Today he is celebrating the overwhelming passage of House Resolution 548, which he introduced to encourage the display of the motto, “In God We Trust,” in all public buildings.
24 July 2000 (Newsroom) — Following a rejection of same-sex union rites by the Episcopal Church’s recent convention in Denver, Colorado, a gay advocacy group within the church is collecting an online list of gay and lesbian couples “waiting” for the denomination to bless formally their relationships.